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Best award yet?

Congratulations to Aktar Islam on winning the prestigious Birmingham Young Professional of the Year award! Birmingham Future’s flagship awards ceremony, now in its 12th year, was hosted by the legendary Sir Ranulph Fiennes. After triumphing in the Young Entrepreneur of the Year category, Aktar then  went on to scoop the overall award of Young Professional [...]

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10th ANNIVERSARY FOR LASAN!

It’s hard to believe, but Lasan Restaurant reaches its 10th anniversary this year! It’s been a tremendous journey since our initial struggle to get financial support to set up a restaurant in what was seen as a high risk business area, particularly with a young team and our planned positioning at the top end of [...]

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Make Valentine’s Day Perfect!

If you have been watching the weekly food programme Perfect on the Good Food Channel (Sky 249, Virgin 260), where top chefs go head to head to create tip top dishes, you will know what an entertaining programme this is. Even if you haven’t, try tuning in on 14th February when I am competing head [...]

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Aktar of Lasan listed in the BB Power 100

I’m delighted to see that I have been included in the British Bangladeshi Power 100 list that has just been published. A total surprise – and all the more satisfying and exciting because of this! BB Power 100 is the definitive list of the top 100 most influential British Bangladeshi’s in the UK. This includes leading figures from various sectors [...]

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